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Online video forced to use captions
A bombshell law was passed recently. 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act does many things, one of the most important is that it is now REQUIRED to have a caption file to any online video that has sound. For podcasters since there is no video you are exempt from this, but if you have a video with audio running at the same time (see youtube) you need to add captions.
Anyone know of any free programs for people to do this or even any tricks to get it to work in multiple formats? Your thoughts on this law that has passed? Any general ideas on it completely?
Anyone know of any free programs for people to do this or even any tricks to get it to work in multiple formats? Your thoughts on this law that has passed? Any general ideas on it completely?
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In other news, I've had to turn off Chrome's spellcheck after it kept crashing pages when I try to have it use English instead of American English.
The real solution is simple. All content on the Internet produced and distributed domestically by companies that make more than x dollars per year from said content and directly related businesses alone should have to comply with accessibility requirements. It should be fully optional under this threshold.
A better way to do this would be mandating the abillity for people to add subtitles to their video.
But for small/hobbyist creators, the cost of captioning can be far greater than the combined cost of content creation. I haven't read the text of the law, but it's been on the horizon for a while, and is likely poorly written. My guess is that there will be an Internet hubub in a week or two, which will die down after the last Slashdot article on the subject. The law will then be ignored for a while by small publishers and content creators until, maybe a year from now, someone sues Youtube. It will be yet another of the many myriad laws that citizens will routinely break without punishment but nonetheless will remain laws, amplifying the sad state of our society where a motivated law enforcement officer is practically guaranteed to be able to find something illegal in your life should they require it.
I'm surprised the Internet didn't rabble sooner. Still, no one will until all the aggregators run their inevitable fear-stories on the legislation. I can practically see the future, in that the content of the posts on Fark and Slashdot are obvious enough that I could likely write a predictive engine, capable of recreating an article and comments from the future.
There is a subsecion under Video Description and Close Captioning that reads And another that makes me wonder All this back referencing seems to me to be a bit much. Wouldn't it be simpler to just repeal the old law and then make the full text of the new Law be the modified version? /sigh
I doubt the federal government gives a shit about AVGN or CineMassacre. They might care about the online content provided by major networks.
Don't worry - Blind people are not left out either.
I've never heard of a person without taste. Obviously losing smell diminishes taste greatly, but the tastebuds still do something. They aren't completely lost. I've also never heard of a person with no touch.
At least deaf and blind people can have sex just the same as everyone else. Blind people might actually be way better at sex, since they have no concern for physical appearance, and only how it feels. I think that would make up for any lack of good porn.